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PRINCETON  THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY 


SYLLABUS 


OF  THE 


Special  Lectures  on  Missions 


FOR 


1907-1908 


KOREA'S  CHALLENGE  TO  THE  CHRISTIAN  CHURCH 

SY  THE 


Rev.  Horace  Grant  Underwood,  D.D. 

Missionary  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Korea. 


The  Lectures  will  be  delivered  in  Miller  Chapel 

Monday,  March  23,  to  Friday,  March  27,  1908, 

at  5 o’clock. 


Digitized  by  the  Internet  Archive 
in  2016 


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LECTURE  ONE. 


The  Challenge  that  comes  from  her  Unsaved  Condition 
and  her  Possibilities. 

I.  Her  Needs  Constitute  a Challenge. 

Her  needs  as  illustrated  in 

A.  Her  Shamanism. 

B.  Her  Buddhism. 

C.  Her  Confucianism. 

D.  Her  absolute  ignorance  of  spiritual  realities. 

II.  Her  Potentialities  Constitute  a Challenge. 

In  studying  these,  consider 

A.  The  People. 

a.  Their  physique. 

b.  Their  mentality. 

c.  Their  temperament. 

Note : Reasons  why  such  people  are  a subject  race, 
ist.  A hermit  nation. 

2nd.  Their  real  character  unknown. 

3rd.  Often  judged  by  lowest  class. 

4th.  Korean  preeminently  a scholar. 

A soldier  nation  now  in  the  ascendant. 
5th.  She  has  temporarily  succumbed  in  the 
political  maelstrom  of  the  East. 

B.  Their  attitude  toward  their  old  faiths. 

a.  Religious  instinct. 

b.  Reasoning  power. 

c.  Search  for  truth. 

C.  Their  ancient  civilization  in  many  points  superior  to 
their  neighbors. 

a.  Constitutional  monarchy. 

b.  Alphabet. 

c.  Their  inventions. 

Wood  fibre  paper 
Bell  metal. 

Unrivalled  dyes. 

First  suspension  bridge. 

First  mortar  and  bomb. 

First  iron  clad. 


LECTURE  TWO. 


Early  Beginnings  as  Constituting  a Challenge. 

I.  The  Winning  of  an  Entree. 

To  palace. 

To  the  nobility. 

To  the  people. 

II.  The  Attitude  of  the  People. 

Toward  foreigners. 

Toward  our  books. 

As  influenced  by  their  knowledge  of  the  Chinese. 

As  seen  in  their  willingness  to  discuss  religion. 

Manifested  in  their  receptivity. 

III.  The  Various  Political  Upheavals. 

The  man  ready  for  the  hour. 

The  China-Japan  war. 

Murder  of  the  Queen. 

The  King’s  escape. 

The  Russo-Japan  war. 

IV.  The  Beginnings  of  Mission  Work  Constituted  a Notable  Challenge. 

A.  The  remarkable  effect  of  the  word  upon  unsaved  readers. 

a.  No  Tosa. 

b.  Koksan. 

c.  White  Wings. 

B.  Baptism  first  converts. 

C.  Organization  first  church. 

D.  Celebration  first  communion  service. 

E.  First  church  built  by  natives. 

a.  Their  efforts  towards  its  erection. 

b.  Their  primary  school. 

c.  The  enlargement  of  the  church. 

d.  The  Christianizing  of  the  village. 

F.  Early  work  in  a large  city. 

G.  The  lives  of  Christian  individuals  exercising  a wide  influ- 
ence upon  their  heathen  neighbors. 


LECTURE  THREE. 


The  Methods  Employed  and  the  Phenomena  Witnessed 
Constitute  a Challenge. 

I.  The  Methods  that  Might  Be  Employed. 

First.  The  object  to  be  accomplished. 

Negatively  considered. 

A.  Not  to  denationalize  the  people. 

B.  Not  to  establish  an  American  church. 

C.  Not  to  establish  our  own  peculiar  denomination. 

D.  Not  to  fill  the  land  with  foreign  missionaries. 

E.  Not  to  have  the  home  church  always  support  the 
native  church. 

F.  Not  to  have  the  native  church  always  governed 
by  the  home  church. 

Positively  considered. 

A.  To  establish  a self-propagating  church. 

B.  To  establish  a self-supporting  church. 

C.  To  establish  a self-governing  church. 

D.  To  establish  a church  preeminently  native. 

E.  To  make  the  whole  nation  Christian  in  sentiment. 

Second.  The  material  on  which  we  have  to  work. 

Third.  Possible  methods. 

II.  Some  methods  that  have  been  followed  in  other  fields. 

III.  Methods  employed  in  Korea. 

A.  Seven  principles  underlying  the  work. 

B.  The  carrying  out  of  these  principles. 


ist. 

2nd. 

3rd. 

4th. 


The  organization  of  the  work. 
The  training  of  workers. 

Rules  for  admission  to  church. 
Methods  of  development. 


IV.  The  phenomena  that  have  followed. 


i st.  619  self-supporting  chruches. 

2nd.  344  schools  of  which  334  are  self-supporting. 
3rd.  Contributions  for  good  works. 


LECTURE  FOUR. 

The  Character  of  the  Korean  Christians  and  the  Work 
They  are  Doing  a Challenge. 

I.  Their  Character. 

A.  Their  zeal  for  studying  the  Scriptures. 

B.  The  simplicity  and  strength  of  their  faith. 

C.  Their  activity  in  Christian  work. 

D.  Their  liberality. 

E.  Their  steadfastness  under  persecution  and  temptation. 

IT.  The  Kind  of  Work  They  are  Doing  as  Illustrated  by 

A.  The  work  at  Haing  Ju. 

B.  At  Eul  Yul. 

C.  At  Tai  Ku. 


III.  The  Late  Revival. 


LECTURE  FIVE. 


The  Present  Day  Opportunity  the  World  Oyer 
Constitutes  a Challenge. 


All  Heathendom  Astir. 

A. 

Africa. 

B. 

Islam. 

C. 

South  America. 

D. 

India. 

E. 

Philippines. 

F. 

Japan. 

G. 

China. 

II.  The  Present  Day  Opportunity  in  Korea  as  seen  in 

A.  The  receptivity  of  the  People. 

B.  The  120,000  raw  recruits. 

C.  The  Christians’  zeal  for  an  education. 

D.  The  desire  of  the  heathen  for  a Christian  education. 

E.  In  their  time  of  trouble  seeking  their  refuge  in  God. 

F.  Their  attitude  toward  America. 

G.  Their  attitude  toward  your  own  Mission. 


